He was the youngest prime minister since 1812 and the longest-serving Labour prime minister, and his 10-year tenure as prime minister was the second longest continuous period (after Margaret Thatchers) in more than 150 years. PetroSaudi executives warned in early September 2010 that they had no contractual nexus with TB and were anxious about the lack of apparent employment or other involvement of TB in the corporate structure. As the second week of COP27 kicks off, I have been reflecting on the events of . It is 'Rented' to the NHS by a private company called PFI Octagon at a cost of over 50m a year until 2037.. [8], Since his childhood, Blair has been a fan of Newcastle United football club.[10][11][12]. [5] Hazel Corscadden was the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to Glasgow in 1916. His tenure as leader began with a historic rebranding of the party, who began to use the campaign label New Labour. He said it had been a "great privilege" to have served as prime minister, adding: "I would like to thank all those who served alongside me, in politics, public service and all parts of our society, for their dedication and commitment to our country.". At various points in his premiership, Blair was among both the most popular and unpopular figures in UK history. Salaries posted anonymously by Tony Blair Institute for Global Change employees. It is very easy to say yes. He became influenced by fellow student and Anglican . [258] The family's primary residence is in Connaught Square; the Blairs own eight residences in total. The Pope and his advisors criticised some of Blair's political actions, but followed up with a reportedly unprecedented red-carpet welcome, which included the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, who would be responsible for Blair's Catholic instruction. This included Iraq in both 1998 and 2003, Kosovo (1999), Sierra Leone (2000) and Afghanistan (2001). It will be "Sir Tony" after the Queen's award, Baroness Amos becomes the first black member of the order, Camilla has been given this elevation by the Queen, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. [7], Blair launched the Institute as a new policy platform to refill the wide open space in the middle of politics aimed at combating a frightening authoritarian populism that he says is undermining the wests belief in democracy. [6], The Tony Blair Institute warned of growing Iranian threat. Job Title: Head of Partnerships, Africa The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) is a non-profit group that helps governments with strategy, policy, and implementation through its policy work and advisory practice. [42], Blair demanded an inquiry into the Bank of England's decision to rescue the collapsed Johnson Matthey bank in October 1985. [230] He was supported by Lord Falconer, who stated that the war had been authorised by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441. The son of a barrister, Blair attended Fettes College in Edinburgh (a school often viewed as Scotlands Eton) and St. Johns College of the University of Oxford, where he combined the study of law with interest in religious ideas and popular music. Blair was appointed prime minister after Labour won the 1997 general election, its largest landslide general election victory in history, becoming the youngest prime minister of the 20th century. Where its proxies operate, it should be held responsible. [35] Blair's election literature in the 1983 general election endorsed left-wing policies that Labour advocated in the early 1980s. He is the second longest serving prime minister in modern history after Margaret Thatcher, and is the longest serving Labour politician to have held the office. [177] A following complaint was rejected, with Downing Street claiming the information compromised free and frank discussions, while Cabinet Office claimed releasing the timing of the PM's contacts with individuals is undesirable, as it might lead to the content of the discussions being disclosed. [190], On 27 June 2007, Blair officially resigned as prime minister after ten years in office, and he was officially confirmed as Middle East envoy for the United Nations, European Union, United States, and Russia. For other inquiries, Contact Us. BBC News royal correspondent Tony Blair, the Duchess of Cornwall, and Baroness Amos are to be appointed as members of the Order of the Garter, England's oldest and most senior order of. Leo, who was the first child born to a serving Prime Minister in over 150 years in 2000, is said to be 'musically gifted' and interested in politics. PetroSaudi was interested in Beijings appetite for oil and how Blairs firm could help. [151] From 2001, Blair built up a relationship[clarification needed] with Barak's successor, Ariel Sharon, and responded positively to Arafat, whom he had met thirteen times since becoming prime minister and regarded as essential to future negotiations. Blair's first PMOS was Alastair Campbell, who served in that role from May 1997 to 8 June 2001, after which he served as the prime minister's director of communications and strategy until his resignation on 29 August 2003 in the aftermath of the Hutton Inquiry. Without peace in the Middle East, grievances will continue to fester, and conflict will spill-over to other countries. [200], Blair established Tony Blair Associates to "allow him to provide, in partnership with others, strategic advice on a commercial and pro bono basis, on political and economic trends and governmental reform". Tony Blair. While at Oxford, Blair has stated that he was briefly a Trotskyist, after reading the first volume of Isaac Deutscher's biography of Leon Trotsky, which was "like a light going on". [13] Aged 13, he was sent to spend his school term-time boarding at Fettes College in Edinburgh from 1966 to 1971. [256] Leo was the first legitimate child born to a serving prime minister in over 150 years since Francis Russell was born to Lord John Russell on 11 July 1849. [63] He was also the first prime minister born after World War II and the accession of ElizabethII to the throne. The Labour Party was too locked into a base that was shrinking, since it was based on the working-class, on trade unions, and on residents of subsidised council housing. Knights are chosen personally byThe Queen, with the invitation honouring people who have held public office, contributed to national life in a particular way, or who have personally served the Monarch. During his first term, Blair enacted constitutional reforms, and significantly increased public spending on healthcare and education, while also introducing controversial market-based reforms in these areas. [101] This triggered the 2007 Labour Party leadership election, in which Brown was the only candidate for leader. We do this through developing policy and advising governments. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. [6], The organisation is not a political party, but it is heavily influenced by the ideology and personal style of Tony Blair. We should learn from his professionalism, his verve and his ability to connect to people but. "[76] In 2009, Blair stated that he would have supported removing Saddam Hussein from power even in the face of proof that he had no such weapons. [292][293], On 8 July 2010, Blair was awarded the Order of Freedom by President Fatmir Sejdiu of Kosovo. The Blair's youngest child Leo is also a Labour party member, having joined when Jeremy Corbyn was leader. Tony Blair served as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1997 to 2007--the only Labour leader in the party's 100-year history to win three consecutive elections. [217], In December 2016, Blair created the Tony Blair Institute to promote global outlooks by governments and organisations. In an interview with The Guardian, the former prime minister said his Institute for Global Change is more than a think tank since it would aim to arm front-rank politicians with strategies and policies to rebuild the centre, and combat populism caused by a cultural and economic revolt against the effects of globalisation. London. Euan was recently awarded an MBE for services to education in the Queen's birthday honours list, six months after his father was awarded a controversial knighthood. [248], In August 2021, Blair criticised the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and of NATO troops saying that it was "in obedience to an imbecilic slogan about ending 'the forever wars'". Blair was born at Queen Mary Maternity Home in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 6 May 1953. [43] When Kinnock resigned after a fourth consecutive Conservative victory in the 1992 general election, Blair became shadow home secretary under John Smith. Tony Blair, writing in the New Statesman, got one thing correct in his latest "rare intervention": without fundamental change, Labour will die. Here's a look at the life of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Tony Blair 2010. Blair was re-elected for a third term with another landslide in 2005, but with a substantially reduced majority. Unless Western leaders can learn the lessons from the 1979 revolution, the threat Iran poses will continue to grow. [230] The human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman concurred with Tutu's suggestion that there should be a war crimes trial. Mr. Blair, who is in the country in his capacity as Executive Director of the Tony Blair Institute, said that Zambia's future prospects have increased his organisation's appetite and. [20] He was influenced by fellow student and Anglican priest Peter Thomson, who awakened his religious faith and left-wing politics. Its patron saint is St George and appointments are announced on St George's Day - April 23. Despite opposition, the plan was ultimately approved. In November, Blair was back in Beijing to give a speech for his Faith Foundation. The Tony Blair Institute believes that extremism, governance, the Middle East and the fight against populism are all interconnected. [262] A 2015 assertion, by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan, concluded that Blair had acquired $90 million and a property portfolio worth $37.5 million in the eight years since he had left office. 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Emails show oil firm questioned complex structure of Blairs company, and reveal his closeness to Chinese leadership, Revealed: Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi princes oil firm. Since then Blair has been back two dozen times and has built a reputation for befriending the rising stars of Chinese politics. Robert Graves, The White Goddess (Octagon Books. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. Dearlove also alleged that in 2000, a KGB officer approached him, seeking Britain's help in boosting Putin's political profile, and this was why Blair met Putin in Russia. Lord Avebury said: "The public can now scrutinise the timing of his (Murdoch's) contacts with the former prime minister, to see whether they can be linked to events in the outside world. Where it is seeking influence, it should be countered. Yesterday it was reported that his education start-up - Multiverse - had been valued at 639 million, making him worth circa 160 . [105], In 2001, Blair said, "We are a left of centre party, pursuing economic prosperity and social justice as partners and not as opposites". The Blairs are not and have never been directors of Octagon Healthcare, the company responsible for the PFI. When governments work well they are able to create economic and social change in a way that promotes fairness . [40] Blair was helped on the campaign trail by soap opera actress Pat Phoenix, his father-in-law's girlfriend. It is thought mother Cherie is supportive of the venture and has allowed her son to use a desk at her business in central London. Both firms trade as Tony Blair Associates (TBA). The ex-Labour leader, 67, was compared to Doc from Back to the Future as. In 2001 Britain joined the U.S. in the global war on terror. To allay concerns in November 2010, Varun Chandra, a former Lehman Brothers banker and director of TBA, told PetroSaudi that Blair was the ultimate owner of all this and owns all the share capital of all the companies. He says he will be "Sir Tony" rather than Sir Anthony. He stated: "whether people agree or disagree with my decision to take military action against Saddam Hussein; I took it in good faith and in what I believed to be the best interests of the country. SirTony Blair's childrenwere reunited in public as he was knighted at Windsor Castle yesterday. [233], In September 2012, Desmond Tutu suggested that Blair should follow the path of former African leaders who had been brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. [69], The Kosovo War, which Blair had advocated on moral grounds, was initially a failure when it relied solely on air strikes; the threat of a ground offensive convinced Serbia's Slobodan Miloevi to withdraw. She later read at the College of Law and completed a diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences. [160], Blair had an antagonistic relationship with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and allegedly planned regime change against Mugabe in the early 2000s. New York, 1972) 50 The Return Of The Serpents Of Wisdom, many references to these peoples 51 Ibid, p 41 52 Ibid 53 Ibid, p 78 54 See Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Corgi Books, London, 1982) . [227] On 3 September Blair gave his first live interview since publication on The Late Late Show in Ireland, with protesters lying in wait there for him. Another former prime minister, Sir John Major, is among the current members of the Order of the Garter, along with businessman and philanthropist Lord Sainsbury and former MI5 chief, Baroness Manningham-Buller. [185], Blair had close relationships with the Clinton family. 52,666 / yr. Head of Partnerships salaries - 1 salaries reported. He told PetroSaudi it was not relevant which company got paid given where the cash ultimately ends up. Sir Tony walked with Baroness Valerie Amos who joined the Order as a Lady Companion. [10], They work to promote co-existence and counter extremism by tackling the ideology behind violence, not just the violence itself, and focusing on responses to extremism that first seek to understand the underlying ideology then addressing it by disrupting its spread, reducing its appeal, and building resilience to its messaging. [13], The Tony Blair Institute has projects in 14 African countries, whose combined population exceeds 460 million. In July 2009, this accomplishment was followed by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the US, Durham University in the UK, and the National University of Singapore in Asia, to deliver a postgraduate programme in partnership with the Foundation. Tarek Obaid was a former banker who styled himself as an adviser to members of the Saudi royal family and a director of a joint venture with Malaysias multibillion-dollar development fund, 1MDB. The modern criteria, according to Buckingham Palace, is to "honour those who have undertaken public service, who have contributed in a particular way to national life or who have served the sovereign personally". When Jonathan Powell, the gatekeeper to the corporate empire of Tony Blair, sat down to lunch with the former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Faisal Al Turki in June 2010 he could not have known how lucrative it would turn out to be for the former British prime minister. [215], In February 2009 he applied to set up a charity called the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative: the application was approved in November 2009. He graduated from Oxford in 1975 and was called to the bar the following year. Tony Blair is closing the advisory firm that has muddied his post-government career by making millions of pounds from an array of controversial clients ranging from oil companies to the. He then decided to leave Gotham for a while after having a parent's association, and later the police, on his case (which resulted in Gordon becoming alcoholic and cheating on his wife) and had to shift his focus on the countryside, spending most of his time in scouts camps, wearing a scout chief uniform over his Batsuit, to cover his identity as the Batman. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Observer newspaper claimed that at a cabinet meeting before Blair left for a summit with Bush on 28 July 2006, a significant number of ministers pressured Blair to publicly criticise Israel over the scale of deaths and destruction in Lebanon. [234], In July 2017, former Iraqi general Abdulwaheed al-Rabbat launched a private war crimes prosecution, in the High Court in London, asking for Tony Blair, former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former attorney general Lord Goldsmith to be prosecuted for "the crime of aggression" for their role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the last minute, he was added to the shortlist and won the selection over Huckfield. By August 2010, according to documents, PetroSaudi raised concerns internally that TBAs proposed contract was more appropriate to an investment bank (eg they can record our phone calls). His election came as something of a surprise because many believed the post would go to Gordon Brown, the shadow chancellor of the Exchequer, who had partnered with Blair in an attempt to move Labour to the political centre; however, Blairs stock within the party had risen, and Brown had reluctantly agreed to step aside, though not before the two had come to an understanding that Blair would back Brown as his eventual successor. Bringing together the various organisations Blair set up after leaving office The Tony Blair Governance Initiative and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation as well as his work on the Middle East peace process, establishing a new area of work: Renewing the Centre. He wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian during the party's 2015 leadership election that if it elected Corbyn, it would face a "rout, possibly annihilation" at the next election. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Blair had been a major advocate for a ground offensive, which Bill Clinton was reluctant to do, and ordered that 50,000 soldiers most of the available British Army should be made ready for action. Tony Blair Institute (TBI) New Job Recruitment. Corrections? Member of TBI senior leadership team. From early on in their relationship PetroSaudi executives admitted they knew very little about Blairs firms. Blair's initial inquiries discovered that the left was trying to arrange the selection for Les Huckfield, sitting MP for Nuneaton who was trying elsewhere; several sitting MPs displaced by boundary changes were also interested in it. [201] The profits from the firm go towards supporting Blair's "work on faith, Africa and climate change". Tony Blair meets Chinas then vice-premier, now premier, Li Keqiang in Beijing in 2011. hen Jonathan Powell, the gatekeeper to the corporate empire of. The proceedings lasted for four days, and consisted of five judges of judicial and academic backgrounds, a tribunal-appointed defence team in lieu of the defendants or representatives, and a prosecution team including international law professor Francis Boyle. Critics of his actions, including Bishop Desmond Tutu,[230] Harold Pinter[231] and Arundhati Roy[232] have called for his trial at the International Criminal Court. [28] Although Blair lost the Beaconsfield by-election and Labour's share of the vote fell by 10 percentage points, he acquired a profile within the party. [142], However, a perception of one-sided compromising personal and political closeness led to discussion of the term "Poodle-ism" in the UK media, to describe the "Special Relationship" of the UK government and prime minister with the US White House and President. Updates? Putin has a very clear agenda of modernizing Russia. Tony, procured by Windrush, is involved at higher level but on an ongoing basis, meeting with senior political leadership and business heads in order to discuss PetroSaudi at a strategic level and to speak highly of your management.. [97][98] Over the summer of 2006 many MPs, including usually supportive MPs, criticised Blair for not calling for a ceasefire in the 2006 IsraelLebanon conflict. Blair resigned from his Sedgefield seat in the House of Commons in the traditional form of accepting the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, to which he was appointed by Gordon Brown in one of the latter's last acts as Chancellor of the Exchequer. [46] As is customary for the holder of that office, Blair was appointed a Privy Councillor. Find Salaries Baroness Amos, a member of the House of Lords, becomes a "lady companion", honouring her career as international development secretary, a United Nations under-secretary for humanitarian affairs and her current role - master of University College, Oxford. In a 1997 visit to the United States, he made a comment on "great industrialised nations" that fail to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Or rather Tony Blair's long, flowing gray hair did. Nicky, pictured furthest right,is licenced by Fifa and co-founded Magnitude Brazil Sports limited, based in Rio de Janeiro, in 2011. Blair also gave important powers to unelected advisers, notably media consultant Alistair Campbell. [84], One of Blair's first acts as prime minister was to replace the then twice-weekly 15-minute sessions of Prime Minister's Questions held on Tuesdays and Thursdays with a single 30-minute session on Wednesdays. [220] In July 2010 it was announced the memoirs would be retitled A Journey. "[131] Blair and his party promised a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide. [163] In 2018, Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6, said there was "significant regret" over this trip, which helped Putin rise to power. Blair supported the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration by ensuring that the British Armed Forces participated in the War in Afghanistan, to overthrow the Taliban, destroy al-Qaeda, and capture Osama bin Laden. A basement extension and enclosed courtyard were added by the family. Three months into his second term, Blair's premiership was shaped by the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the start of the war on terror. [174][175][176][bettersourceneeded], A Cabinet Office freedom of information response, released the day after Blair handed over power to Gordon Brown, documents Blair having various official phone calls and meetings with Rupert Murdoch of News Corporation and Richard Desmond of Northern and Shell Media. In May 1985, he appeared on BBC's Question Time, arguing that the Conservative Government's Public Order White Paper was a threat to civil liberties. Omissions? Please select which sections you would like to print: Alternate titles: Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Professor of Ethnic Peace and Conflict, University of Bradford, Eng. [112] Leading Conservatives of the post-New Labour era hold Blair in high regard: George Osborne describes him as "the master", Michael Gove thought he had an "entitlement to conservative respect" in February 2003, while David Cameron reportedly maintained Blair as an informal adviser.[113][114][115]. [134], Blair built his foreign policy on basic principles (close ties with U.S. and E.U.) Then he got anM.A. [151] During his first visit to Israel, Blair thought the Israelis bugged him in his car. Leaving Fettes College at the age of 18, Blair next spent a gap year in London attempting to find fame as a rock music promoter.